Feeling Good: The Science of Well-Being

Cloninger M.D., C. Robert

ISBN 10: 0195051378 / ISBN 13: 9780195051377

Published by Oxford University Press, 2004

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Synopsis:

In this long-awaited work, psychiatrist Robert Cloninger argues that all persons have spontaneous needs for happiness, self-understanding, and love, and he describes a way toward achieving psychological coherence that satisfies these basic human needs.

Review: Cloninger, a distinguished US psychiatrist, starts this book with the question, 'why is it so difficult to be happy'? He is critical of conventional scientific psychiatry's approach to the answer to this question, and throughout the book invokes concepts which science finds it difficult to grapple with - like 'coherence'. He ranges with profound insight widely over philosophy and history plus many other sciences, including mathematics, to take an intelligent stab at the central problems of well-being. (Dr Raj Persaud in the British Journal of Psychiatry)

. . . a product of vast erudition . . . radical, comprehensive, audacious, brilliant . . . (PsycCRITIQUES)

Bibliographic Details

Title: Feeling Good: The Science of Well-Being
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Good